The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 43 (June 16 - 30, 2014)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.

Enjoy reading!

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News and Releases

PHP 5.3.0 - Exactly 5 years ago PHP 5.3 was released. It was then that namespaces, anonymous functions, and a number of other features were introduced, without which it is difficult to imagine PHP development today.
PHP releases 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 - Updates of current branches, contain a number of security fixes.
PHP 5.6.0RC1 is available - As promised earlier, on June 19, the PHP development team announced the release of the first release candidate. RC2 is scheduled for July 3rd, and then the final release. Briefly about the changes in 5.6 here .
Toran Proxy and the future of Composer - Written by Composer Jordi Boggiano faced a known problem when working on an open-source product takes a lot of time, but does not generate revenue. Therefore, the world has a paid product Toran Proxy, which allows you to quickly create private package repositories. The same could have been done with Satis before, but the Toran Proxy makes the process much easier and more convenient. The money received from the sales of Toran Proxy will allow you to continue working on the free Composer and Packagist. We wish the author good luck and success to his offspring!
Yii 1.1.15 - Emergency release fixes a security issue found in 1.1.14. Earlier versions are not affected.

Php

RFC: Big Integer Support - Offer to implement full support for large integers in PHP, which will allow using numbers of any length limited only by the size of the RAM. In fact, the implementation completely copies the same feature from Python.
RFC: Bare Name Array Dereference , Bare Name Array Literal - Voting on the two conflicting proposals mentioned in the last issue of the digest is expected to fail.

Instruments

Elastica is a PHP client for ElasticSearch.
Swarrot - Library abstracting work with message brokers.
Supervisor - Add-on Symfony / Pocess to manage child processes.
Promises in PHP - The sabre / event 2.0 library allows you to use the concept of promises a la javascript in PHP.
PhpMetrics - A tool for counting various metrics by PHP code. Sample HTML report .
League \ Url - A simple library for working with URLs.
KLogger - Excellent PSR-3 compatible logger in one file.
Smaug - Library for creating parsers for PHP.

Study materials

Link mismatch in function calls - Great post from Julien Pauli from the PHP core team. Some features of using links in PHP and how this affects memory consumption are revealed.
realpath_cache - Detailed post about such an important concept as realpath_cache.
SSL and data streams in PHP: you do it wrong. - About security aspects when working with data streams in PHP.
How best to work with assets in Symfony 2 - About working with assets using NodeJS, Bower and GruntJS.
Stress test your PHP application using ApacheBench
Use Mockery to replace dependencies in your tests.
Unit testing with a database - Unit testing itself involves isolating code and replacing dependencies like a database with all kinds of stubs. However, this is not the only way out and in the post an example of the implementation of tests for Codeception using the database.
PHP Interview Guide - Several questions for a PHP candidate have been addressed, and well, answers have been offered.
8 PHP Testing and Quality Support Tools - PHPUnit in Brief, Behat, vfsStream, PHPLOC, PHP Mess Detector, PHP CodeSniffer, Dead Code Detector, Copy Paste Detector.
The most dangerous threats to the quality of your code
HMAC - based secure REST APIs - Describes how to use HMAC to implement secure authentication / authorization in the REST API.
Cheat Sheet on Encoding Data in PHP
Adventure Time with Hack and HHVM - Experience Using Hack.
Access to undefined elements of an array / object in PHP and not only - Comparison of the implementation of logic array_key_exists('bar', $foo) ? $foo['bar'] : default; array_key_exists('bar', $foo) ? $foo['bar'] : default; in PHP and other languages.
Tutorial for installing PHP extensions from source
Learn Haskell to be an expert in PHP, Ruby ... - On the positive effect of learning a different paradigm language.
Typed PHP - New book, which discusses the standard libraries and extensions to implement a type system on top of PHP.
Dead Code - The author of Xdebug tells why his tool can signal unused (dead) code points in completely unobvious places.
High Load Architecture - Principles and ways to scale web applications.
Everything you wanted to know about refactoring, but were afraid to ask - A new excellent resource on refactoring.guru refactoring with examples of code in PHP and other languages.
How to make framework-independent controllers? , Get rid of annotations in your controllers! , Final touches - A series of articles on controllers in symfony 2.
Comparison of geolocation binary databases and their drivers: GeoIP, Sypex Geo, TabGeo
Yii2 and multilingual organization
We learn PHP from the inside. Zval
Are PHP feature developers afraid?